The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-14

Quogue consists OF eleven boarding houses,
half dozen cottages. Republican store.
Democratic store. and Post Office, a road. q
beach. pond. life saving station, BUTCH
ers shop. q liberty pole livery stable.
church. chapel, and Hiram Stevens and his
outfit. Add three stages. few sail and row.
boats. a life boat and fishing boat and little
live stock. and you have the whole inventory
in winter. In summer there is further ad-
dltion Of one thousand summer boarders from
New FORK and Brooklyn; There is only, mile
OF QuoGue,,a broad. clean sand road. with
grasss and trees on ethe st.s side and
owns the ocean and rents i out, BY
the bath. day week, or season. 1t is about
seventy miles from New York and Is as nearly
fashioned watering place such rs lIslip, and
days, and such as Narragansett Pier was until
Mr.. Dun and his associates built the Casino
Fench 6athne took to saying
tive wei We'll here s goes" with botsls and
The eleven houses which dodge one another
on either her side Of the Quogne road nearly all
They be beg S as psnts little thinss With Just
room enough for the landlord and his wife. a
paGr and or two beds for hunters
plant oysters DO, until now the landlord and
HIS WIG anu lue ptTlOT udNc q W
edge themselves in among the boarders, who
come at the rate Of hundred or more to each
CT int s0vfe Tn5S are fS ssaa*Rf
old fashioned broad azas full Of
trees. Three times day somebody, walks out
Of one house and shakes dinner bell wildly
come out Of all, the other houses and dinner
bells hll the whole air Of Quogue. Three times
fllA hn1 nd nj n
can nag In gate post OF hotel fence and
then other men or women come 6. 9pt Of The
the stage drivers who 20 to the trains, two
miles through the woods back OF Quogue. that
%Esn IS Gsos want station be @ and
s%s s reash SAY down betwosn as their feet on
the dashboard Of the stages they drive. and.
putting brass horns to their mouths. sound
short cavalry command that never fails to
dows 70 assure themselves that 1t is not sol
diers," but merely the ebonized brothers noti-
flying the folks that they are engaged In the
sisyphus Of oidi Of taking people down to the
beach which is also Hiram stevens's and goes
pitcher always goes with a broken mirror at an
auction sale.
hs sS hs the q SdrS sm are a nnt
broken against any ones will, except 6y the
arrival OF newcomers, the tEundling OF ped
steps Of the fishermen who drag net at sea
twice a day, and then. having caught from
twenty-five to sixty bass. peddle them among
the boarding houses.
These fishermen are like all the fishermen
that ever existed since Noah's greatest show
on earth. They laboriously haul in from six to
twelve shillings worth of fsh In two toilsome
raids on the ocean, and yet charge five dollars
to take a party OF New Workers out fishing. be-
cause they say that II they do 80 they will have
to lose one haul OF their net. But II 10 worth
five dollars to 90 out to sea with them and fish
whether you catch q mess or make mess In
either case, piscatortally or incidentally. tho
experience Is worth tho cost. Bass are plenty
and the sport OF catching them Is exhllarating
The bass they get at sea Is Of the striped kind
while only the white label bass is to be had on
land. but the same exhilaration follows the
pursuit OF either. In the ponds and sea to-
gether are perch. weakfish, hlueflsh, and all
the other local favorites In their seasons.
Except for the annoyances above mentioned
there Is little to disturb the ambition OF the
average boarder. which IL to rock lazily ON the
piazza, famed BY the ocean breeze. and to eat
three honest, solid. old-fashioned meals. with
pie at the end Of the second meal. and oake at
the lar terminal OF the third one. Board in
QuoGue ranges from So to sl2 week, and
eats up that amount regularly. the air being
eager and bracinR, and the food being always
served when every eoarder has begun to get
anxious and 70 DECLARE that he never was SO
hungry In his life." The result Is bad for the
hotel Keepers. who are slow and backward. but
In time they will discover thoir mistake and